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Computer World - Yellow Vinyl - Sealed

KRAFTWERK Computer World (2020 UK/EU limited edition 7-track remastered LP pressed on Translucent Neon Yellow Vinyl - their eighth studio album first released in 1981, including the single Computer World. Picture sleeve with 16-page booklet inside, German language hype sticker & factory sealed)

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Price Info
$38.69, £29.99  
Product Availability Last copy in stock. Order now for shipping on Wednesday 9th April
Release Date 9th Oct 2020
Release Year 2020 - 5 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Parlophone
Complete Stock List Go to Kraftwerk
Product Catalogue No 5099996602317
Music Genre 80s/90s German artists, Electronica
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
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Tracklisting & More Information

Computer World captured the band right at the moment when its pioneering approach fully broke through in popular music, thanks to the rise of synth pop, hip-hop, and electro. As Arthur Baker sampled "Trans-Europe Express" for "Planet Rock" and disciples like Depeche Mode, OMD, and Gary Numan scored major hits, Computer World demonstrated that the old masters still had some last tricks up their collective sleeves. Compared to earlier albums, it fell readily in line with The Man-Machine, eschewing side-long efforts but with even more of an emphasis on shorter tracks mixed with longer but not epic compositions. While the well-established tropes of the band were used again -- electronically treated vocals, some provided by Speak and Spell toys; crisp rhythm blips; basslines and beats; haunting, quirky melodies -- there's a ready liveliness to the songs, like the addictive "Pocket Calculator," with its perfectly deadpan portrait of "the operator" and his favourite tool, and the almost winsome "Computer Love." Cannily, the lyrical focus on newly accessible technology instead of cryptic futurism and vanished pasts matched this new of-the-now stance, and the result was a perfect balance between the new world of the album title and a withdrawn, bemused consideration of that world. The title track itself, with its lists detailing major organisations presumably all wired up, echoes the flow of Trans-Europe Express, serene and pondering. "Pocket Calculator" itself is more outrageously fun, thanks to the technical observation that "by pressing down a special key it plays a little melody." Others would take the band's advances and run with them, but with Computer World Kraftwerk -- over a decade on from their start -- demonstrated how they had stayed not merely relevant, but prescient, when nearly all their contemporaries had long since burned out.

Side A
1. Computer World 5:06
2. Pocket Calculator 4:57
3. Numbers 3:20
4. Computer World 2 3:25

Side B
1. Computer Love 7:19
2. Homecomputer 6:21
3. It's More Fun To Compute 4:16

LP RECORD  
Recording Artist Kraftwerk
Product Title Computer World - Yellow Vinyl - Sealed
Product Information Kraftwerk Computer World - Yellow Vinyl - Sealed UK vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info
Artists Related To Aarchaeologists, Elektric Music, Karl Bartos, Kraftwelt, Mobile Homes (Karl Bartos), Organisation, Our Heaven, Senor Coconut, Superior, Wolfgang Flür, Wolfgang Riechmann, Yamo
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